Daring Tales of the Space Lanes #02: Bad Debts

Life in the spacelanes is hard, and spacers have to go where the money is. In this case, that means tracking down the kidnapped daughter of a senior member of the powerful Galactic Trade Assembly.

From the explosive energy crystal world of Kerexi IV to the gas processing spacestation known as Dante and onward to a secret starship controlled by a powerful criminal fraternity, the heroes are plagued by vicious bounty hunters led by the ruthless and cunning Pandit Morg, an alien psion armed with a very deadly weapon!

While avoiding the hunters is hard enough, the stakes are raised when it becomes clear who the kidnappers work for—the much-feared Shandarma Brotherhood. Say, didn’t someone steal one of their ships? Maybe you’ll get lucky and they’ve forgotten you, or maybe revenge is high on the Brotherhood’s agenda.

Daring Tales of the Space Lanes #2 also contains a system for creating your own space pulp planets!

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